Originally Posted By mstaft Started looking through my old DL Guidebooks and found this great little gem. Scanned and posted the pages on my blog. Enjoy! www.insightsandsounds.blogspot.com
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt America Sings and Country Bear Jamboree were E tickets. The Canoes and Skyway were D tickets. Makes you wonder what they would be if ticket books were still being used today.
Originally Posted By mstaft I would bet canoes would be a "C", skyway would stay "D" and America Sings would eventually go "Free". As for Country Bear, maybe a "D".
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt I actually like it better than the bear show. I just wish it were in Fantasyland. If it were there it'd probably be a C ticket.
Originally Posted By TP2000 These ticket ratings were not just based on "popularity", but also based on the cold hard business facts needed to operate each attraction. If the Canoes use a lot of labor, and it appears they do, then they would likely stay a higher cost D Ticket to help cover their operating costs. Particularly with the sky high costs of doing business in California with all of the legislation and fees associated with workers comp, unemployment insurance, worker benefits for full time employees, etc., etc. The cost of operating many Disneyland attractions would today neccesitate upgrading what might be a C or D Ticket in Florida to a D or E Ticket in California. Your tax dollars at work, folks.
Originally Posted By mstaft Regarding America Sings, I think it would eventually go to free if it continued on. The popularity was dropping fast. (I was at DL alot in those days, and visited the attraction frequently.)So, time and familiarity along with lack of thrills may have brought this little gem to "free" to get folks in the doors.
Originally Posted By patrickegan If they put as much of an effort into Pooh as Country bears they may have had something but instead, some cheap Charlie figured they’d slip the diaper crowd a (not so hidden), Mickey. AS might have been free but you’d have to pay me to go on Inoventions…
Originally Posted By TinksBestFriend In the mid seventies I always used my Magic Kingdom card. If memory serves me correctly the price for admission and 15 adventures was, I believe $5.50. Never used these tickets on the Main Street rides. Just paid the ten cents and used the Magic Kingdom tickets on all the other rides. After all the E Ticket rides were 85 cents.
